To: TimF who wrote (2761 ) 2/16/2004 11:30:04 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to I see. its the law of the jungle Anarchy is preferable to order. Whether you understand it or not, you are saying that because Israel has the power to overrule the UN mandate, they can do it. In my book, that's not right but by exercising that power, she made it right. That's what the phrase "might makes right" means. By your definition of the term every wrong action would be right because whoever commited the wrong action obviously had the power to do it. The power to do something is entirely divorsed from the morality of the action. I can think of any number of evil things that I could do but having that power, or actually comiting the evil act would not make it right. I cana also think of good things that I might like to do but don't have the power to do. Lacking the power and failing to do these things doesn't make them bad. The RIGHT thing is to give back the land but you don't think Israel should; hence, by exercising her might, Israel has made it right [by your standards] to control the land that she was not entitled to have under the UN mandate. You say "by my standards" but you aren't applying my standards but rather your own. You say "the right thing to do is to give back the land". And from earlier posts the land you want Israel to give back is all the land that wasn't set aside for Israel in the original partision. you think anything short of that is the wrong thing to do. I don't think not offering up that much land is wrong or immoral. By my standards Israel not offering up that much land is not wrong just because it is not wrong, not because Israel is powerful compared to the Palestinians.
